The ECHR refused to compensate three residents of Donbass for the cost of their housing destroyed by bombing
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rejected three complaints from residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions who demanded that Ukraine compensate the cost of housing they lost as a result of the bombing.
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This is stated in the July 5 court decision published today.
We are talking about a complaint by Svetlana Petukh from Yasinovataya (Donetsk region) against Ukraine, as well as two complaints simultaneously against Ukraine and Russia from Anton Lesnoy from Yasinovataya and Vladimir Anokhin from Trekhizbenka in the Lugansk region.
The applicants also claimed that they could have lost their lives due to the shelling.
Despite the fact that some of the applicants provided photographs of their homes destroyed during the armed conflict, as well as OSCE reports on the situation in eastern Ukraine, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously decided to reject the complaints as insufficiently substantiated.
One of the reasons was that the applicants did not provide documents that would confirm their ownership of the destroyed houses.
The ECHR is considering 600 claims from Ukrainian citizens (as of August 2015) alleging violations of their rights due to the war in Donbass.
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